Archives - 29 September 2017, Friday

Rio Prince of Corvallis Coffee Works , based out of Corvallis, Ore., winner of several bronze and silver medals in various categories both this year and last. Golden Bean pourover/filter coffee Bronze Medal roaster Stacey Lynden, who’s been at it on Vancouver, BC-based Pallet Coffee ‘...

Today, it’s difficult to walk a block on Chiang Mai’s Nimman Avenue without bumping into someone peddling coffee — weather in a fancy, glass-encased building with copious AC and wifi, or from a cart parked on the street corner. Big chains like Starbucks are also represented, but there...

The idea of a Chief Partner Officer is a wonderful thing, no doubt. Starbucks nearly stands alone as a company in terms of trying to understand and work with their workforce. As someone who spoke up in 2016, the care I received was and continues to be beyond impressive. After everythi...

“Our aim is for no risk, not low risk,” said Earley, who noted a number of preventive strategies already in place at the roastery as a result of NIOSH’s earlier findings, including air-handling systems above grinders and automated systems for blending roasted coffees to minimize blend...

With these realities in mind, the FNC has created the “CoffeePickInn” innovation challenge , asking entrepreneurs, research groups and private companies to present selective-harvesting solutions that can make the work more efficient. The group said any proposals need to address the sp...

Building specialty brands based on regenerative models, such as shade-grown and biodiverse coffee production, will require global demand. The coffee branding and retail business has the know-how to largely influence global demand. For example, marketing campaigns about the premium exp...

EU Digital Summit – Tallinn, Estonia, Sept. 29, 2017 – Telia is deploying the first public 5G live network use cases in Europe in collaboration with Ericsson and Intel. This includes a high-speed 5G connection to a commercial passenger cruise ship delivering internet connectivity to t...

The IWCA is a charity very near and dear to Equator. In fact, Maureen McHugh, Equator’s Vice President, has been working with the charity for over a decade and has on the board for the last three years. The non-profit has 22 chapters worldwide that seek to tell the story of women in c...

Hey Thomas! Thanks for talking with Sprudge. For starters, why go the porter route for your take on coffee beer? Our porter comes alive with coffee and toasted coconut. When I make coffee, it’s Hawaii’s best coffee with honey and coconut milk instead of cream or milk. The combination ...

Doug Davis, senior vice president and general manager of the Automated Driving Group at Intel Corporation, speaks in May at the company’s autonomous driving workshop at its Silicon Valley Center for Autonomous Driving in San Jose, California. (Credit: Intel Corporation) In the midst o...

Speaking of Counter Culture, we have been just astonished by their organizing work and donation of time and resources to support 1000 Pours over the last few weeks. CCC are hosting or sponsoring events across the USA tonight, including events in Asheville, Atlanta, Boston, the Bay Are...

Story by Linda Dahlstrom, photos by Joshua Trujillo / Starbucks Newsroom It’s early Friday afternoon at the Starbucks Support Center in Seattle and Randy Walker is focusing hard on a tan pug wearing a pumpkin outfit. In front of him is a print-out of a tweet from @dougthepug raving ab...

We covered the previous three preliminary events in Rancho Cucamonga , Seattle , and Portland, Ore. , in August and September, and will provide coverage of the last two preliminaries happening this weekend in Louisville, Ky., and Tulsa, Okla. Washington, D.C. was one of the most excit...

EU Digital Summit – Tallinn, Estonia, Sept. 29, 2017 – Telia is deploying the first public 5G live network use cases in Europe in collaboration with Ericsson and Intel. This includes a high-speed 5G connection to a commercial passenger cruise ship delivering internet connectivity to t...

Helping farmers establish economic independence is at the heart of what Coffee Kids does. Our rural business workshop trainings are a critical part of this, preparing young farmers to play a larger role in growing and selling coffee and to keep a larger portion of profits in their com...

The various threats to the future of the coffee industry have garnered a lot of press in the last few years. Some reports of how climate change, intensive farming and monocultures threaten global supply, estimate that the amount of suitable farmland worldwide could be halved by 2050, ...

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Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Tickets are now on sale for the 7th London Surf / Film Festival x REEF. Hosted 19 – 21 October 2017 at London’s iconic Regent Street Cinema we’re bringing to the UK a handpicked line up representing the pinnacle of contemporary surfing – documentarie...

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On that bright summer Sunday at Faro, I tried two brewed coffees—one from Ethiopia roasted by Gardelli Specialty Coffees and another from Brazil by The Barn —and a sweet, acidic espresso from Fazenda Agua Limpa in Minas Gerais, Brazil, which was roasted with a profile only served duri...

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And you know what? I never—in all of that time—had the mind or heart open enough to meet the people I met and interviewed for this book, and to a person—Donald Schoenholt, Scott Tauber, Stefanie Kyles, Steve Kobrick, Peter Longo, Saul Zabar, Sterling Gordon, every one of them and so m...

Is there such thing as too much Madcap ? I don’t think so. And the good people of Grand Rapids, Michigan seem to agree, as June 2nd marked the grand opening of the third Madcap location in its home city. According to the press release, the new location is attached to Madcap’s roasting...

Even with strong shoes supporting you, seven hours of standing and interacting with customers can still be intensive. Between the physical requirements of making drinks and the emotional labor required to dose out a pleasant service experience, some baristas turn to yoga as their stab...